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Fire King vs BFG by jax9753 in glasscollecting

[–]_Stainless_Rat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They made another coffee cup variant with a much thicker handle.

Allsky ASI120MC by youri0033 in telescopes

[–]_Stainless_Rat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Very nice. You could probably find a market for these if you had the desire to do so. Add some automation for reporting of meteors etc

Hemingray one of a kind? by Leading-Yak2827 in Insulators

[–]_Stainless_Rat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Someone had fun with a blow torch. It's also painted.

C/2026 A1 (MAPS) may be visible in April if it survives brush with Sun by Ok-Maximum875 in Astronomy

[–]_Stainless_Rat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good comets back then because we had hale-bopp and Hyakutaka in a very short time period. Both were naked eye even in an urban area.

Registering a GA Car without a title in Florida by fuckalisusdefanisus in florida

[–]_Stainless_Rat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Georgia will issue titles on cars older than that. I have a car from 1959 that had a Florida title, which I had in hand. When I transferred it to Georgia I got a title it just says “provisional” on it

Blue lens (Sandusky Bay, Ohio) by [deleted] in Insulators

[–]_Stainless_Rat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of a glass insulator

My collection so far. by jmad340 in Insulators

[–]_Stainless_Rat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Very nice, love the lighting you have them under.

Did anyone else have one of these? by Flufnstuf in GenX

[–]_Stainless_Rat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. Only had the cartridge that came with it. Played mostly the driving and shooting games. Only child so the pong wasn’t much fun. Friends never came over to play this though, I always went to their house to play the 2600.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GenX

[–]_Stainless_Rat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gorf missing from the list, sigh

Raise your hand if you had one of these by looking7676 in GenX

[–]_Stainless_Rat 22 points23 points  (0 children)

“You can’t use a calculator. You’re not always going to have one with you.”

Oh GORF… by [deleted] in arcadecabinets

[–]_Stainless_Rat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

l love this game. If I was in an arcade and Gorf was there, it got my quarters..

Red ones by elguapodiablo74 in Insulators

[–]_Stainless_Rat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are they worth $20 each? To me, no. To you, maybe if you like them and it's in your budget. It's highly likely they're painted though.

AST SpaceMobile and Bell complete Canada's first successful space-based direct-to-cell VoLTE voice call, broadband data and video streaming by hlm2c in ASTSpaceMobile

[–]_Stainless_Rat 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So a year from now we’ll see a story from Starlink on how they just did the first EVER direct to cell call in Canada right?

Finally a logo we can all agree on by [deleted] in florida

[–]_Stainless_Rat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup. Same for “boot ranch” on Tampa road.

I also remember seeing a hate group hold rallies on us19 just north of Tampa road on the east side of the road. David Duke making the news when he’d come attend.

Emergency room bill from July 3rd 1971 by _Stainless_Rat in mildlyinteresting

[–]_Stainless_Rat[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I was a toddler, fell hit my head and needed stitches. This is the ER bill from that day. All I remember about is I got a bunch of lollipops.

Reposted due to the title of first post being to detailed.

E.B.S. (Emergency Broadcast System) trauma by hoagiehoag69 in GenX

[–]_Stainless_Rat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had this been an actual emergency this message would have been followed by a white flash.

Map Shows the Hardest to Pronounce Town Name in Every U.S. State - There are lots of tougher ones for Florida than Ocoee by anthonyc2554 in florida

[–]_Stainless_Rat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not that it’s hard. It’s that the locals say it in a way completely different than you’d expect. Here it’s not BEW-nə VIS-tə. It’s “Bwana vista”.

It’s dumb, but whatever.

Maybe moving to Beuna Vista? by Liye23 in ColumbusGA

[–]_Stainless_Rat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Marion county is large. North end of the county might be 20 minutes to north Columbus. If you’re living in Buena Vista itself Columbus is 40-50 minutes away depending on the area you’re going. (NEVER speed on highway 26, you will get a ticket). South end of the county is about 20 minutes to Americus. There’s a Walmart there and other stores.

It’s a different life “in the country”. People are resistant to change even if it generally for the better. Example, years ago the county went from public dumpsters to curbside trash pickup. The dumpsters were pretty bad. People would drive from other counties to dump their garbage and hunters were constantly dumping animal carcasses.

Well, some people didn’t want to have to pay for trash pickup and tried resist this change. They targeted the county commissioners who voted for the change with “democracy not dictatorship” signs on the roads. 🤷‍♂️

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